Blog Posts Tagged with "Penetration Testing"

Everything about the machine pre-refresh can be recovered, and is placed into a folder named windows.old. Information in regards to the migration process, old vs. new mappings, and the date and time of the refresh can be found by in the $SysReset folder and the specific log...

In order to have samples to test against, I used the sample provided by SecondLook on their Linux memory images page, and I also loaded the Jynx2 rootkit against a running netcat process in my Debian virtual machine that was running the 2.6.32-5-686 32-bit kernel...

With the release of Hacking Exposed 7: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, authors Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz (along with over 10 contributing authors) provide an up to date version to the original classic. The book includes the essentials of hacking...

All users have read access to the SYSVOL share of the domain controller. Forget about password cracking or passing the hash, you just get the cleartext password. A simple search for “*.xml” in the SYSVOL share on the domain controller will show if your organization is vulnerable...

The grey hat is more interested in the “how” than the “why”. There is a respect for the black hat's technical abilities, while keeping a wary eye on them. Some grey hats have had run ins with the law, not due to being malicious, but because curiosity got the best of them...

First you have to get rid of all other services. That’s harder than you would first assume, because you have to admin the box some how. You could toss SSH on a really high port, or have some kind of backend management, or just remove things from running on a multi-IP’d box...

KBeast is a rootkit that loads as a kernel module. It also has a userland component that provides remote access. This backdoor is hidden from other userland applications by the kernel module. KBeast also hides files, directories, and processes that start with a user defined prefix...

This book details topics and features to help analyze traffic issues and identify potential problematic points to improve performance and verify the valid flow of common network communications that can help differentiate the good traffic from the bad...

This post showcases some of Volatility’s new Linux features by analyzing a popular Linux kernel rootkit named “Average Coder” and includes recovering .bash_history, finding userland processes elevated to root, and discovering overwritten file operation structure pointers...

Singh provides an introduction to the widely used Metasploit framework in the form of seventy plus recipes for various penetration testing tasks, and goes beyond the basics of Metasploit and covers additional penetration testing tools such as various scanners and evasion tools...

List the tokens available with Incognito, your new user will be there, steal it and you're done. You now have the ability to user that account/domain token on any of the hosts you've compromised on the network, not just the ones they happen to have left themselves logged in...

If you give public attention to your adversary, the stronger they get. We keep using terms like “Hacker” and “Black Hat”. I understand the need to classify the behavior. However, are we inadvertently giving individuals too much inherited power by recognizing them in context and connotation?

I’ve never seen Pentoo before, but couldn’t resist taking a peek. Basically Pentoo is Gentoo Linux with a bunch of security focused tweaks. I am married to Backtrack and am not interested in switching to another Linux Security Distro, but Pentoo looks enticing...

A recently released article explains in detail how to crack MS-CHAPv2 communication used in many PPTP based VPNs with a 100% success rate. But that is not all, the protocol is also used in WPA2 enterprise environments for connecting to Radius authentication servers. Ouch...